Appium Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Appium
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Appium skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 334 381
Rank change year-on-year -59 +47 +84
Contract jobs citing Appium 5 14 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.027% 0.096% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.19% 0.74% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 23
10th Percentile £301 £274 £400
25th Percentile £303 £314 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £325 £425
Median % change year-on-year +47.53% -23.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £659 £413 £450
90th Percentile £676 £510 £500
UK median daily rate £438 £341 £425
% change year-on-year +28.30% -19.76% -11.92%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Appium falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,653 1,896 2,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.48% 13.03% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,833 1,139 1,639
10th Percentile £319 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £398 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -5.46% -2.29%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.20% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 67 177
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £46.18
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.63 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £78.00
90th Percentile £82.60 £75.10 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

Appium
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Appium relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Appium job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Appium.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Appium

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Appium in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Appium in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Appium.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Appium

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Appium within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -60 3 £308 -5.09% 2
North West -31 2 £488 +50.46% 1
South East -14 1 £650 +52.94% 6
Yorkshire -53 1 £308 -44.09% 1
Scotland - 1 - - 2
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UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
4 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (20.00%) Git
4 1 (20.00%) HP UFT
4 1 (20.00%) JUnit
4 1 (20.00%) TestNG
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Test Planning
3 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) QA Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Test Management
5 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Dundas
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) UiPath